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Raphael Warnock
September 6, 2022
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Kevin Lee
Can the Democrats Keep Winning in Georgia?
In this battleground state, Democrats are hoping that Senator Raphael Warnock holds onto his Senate seat and that Stacey Abrams can defeat GOP Governor Brian Kemp in November’s midterms.
August 8, 2022
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Kevin Lee
Welcome to Georgia, Where the Democrats’ Electoral Dreams Live or Die
For liberals, no state in the country feels more important in the November midterm elections than Georgia. Can Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock prevail?
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April 18, 2022
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Michael Tomasky
The Not-Too-Early Guide to the Upcoming Senate Primaries
Democrats have a path to keeping control of the Senate, but it’s a treacherous, multistate tightrope walk that they’ll have to execute perfectly.
February 9, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
Georgia Is the Midterm Ground Zero for America’s Political Future
Rarely has one state featured so many dramatic, implication-rich races in a midterm year. Can the Democrats—led by Stacey Abrams—pull this off?
January 5, 2022
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Grace Segers
Does the Democrats’ New Voting Rights Push Stand a Chance in Joe Manchin’s Senate?
Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.
December 29, 2021
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Daniel Strauss
The Midterms: The Good, the OK, and the Really, Seriously Ugly
If a lot of things break their way, the Democrats could defy history in the midterm elections. But man, that would need to be a whole lot of things.
December 8, 2021
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Grace Segers
Millions of Kids Could Sink Back Into Poverty if the Child Tax Credit Expires
The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.
October 19, 2021
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Grace Segers
The Democrats’ Predicament du Jour: Expand Health Care Coverage to the Elderly or the Poor?
As the party seeks to shave down the price tag of the Biden agenda to appease holdouts, some Americans are going to get left behind.
April 15, 2021
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Matthew Sitman
Whither the Religious Left?
Left-leaning people of faith will never be reliable allies of the Democratic Party, nor will the party reliably offer them a comfortable home. But their fortunes are linked.
January 8, 2021
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Lucia Graves
Democrats Are Finally Unafraid to Be the Party of Free Money
The decisive factor in the Georgia runoffs may have been the one that Andrew Yang brought back to the liberal mainstream.
January 6, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Georgia Shows the GOP’s Dismal Future Without Trump
The Republican Party is in disarray.
December 30, 2020
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Kate Aronoff
The Pragmatism of the Radical Climate Left
The Georgia runoff shows that climate activists are more practical and strategic than Democrats give them credit for.
December 28, 2020
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Timothy Pratt
Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History?
The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.
December 21, 2020
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Audrey Clare Farley
The Conservative War Against the Black Church
As the Georgia runoffs descend into attacks on the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s faith, the right’s long-simmering antipathy for Black theological traditions is swinging into view.
November 20, 2020
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Kelly Loeffler
The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs.
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